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The pole was carved in 1928 by Chief William Shelton of the Snohomish Nation in Washington state and was erected in North Park in 1929.The pole was carved in 1928 by Chief William Shelton of the Snohomish Nation in... more
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The Duwamish River in Seattle is one of the most toxic places in the US - that's why it was selected as a superfund site and will get cleaned up over the years with hundreds of millions of dollars, paid for by the polluters. James Rasmussen and the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition that he coordinates, play the role of public outreach group in this difficult process, making sure the people who are impacted the most are being involved and heard. Since this work can't be shown in 30 seconds, I decided to focus on his motivation. After all, James has as good a reason to feel with the river as there can be: As a member of the local Indian tribe, he IS Duwamish!The Duwamish River in Seattle is one of the most toxic places in the US - that's... more
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Former SVP of Development for David E. Kelley and adjunct professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in the writing division teaching The Entertainment Industry Seminar, Neely Swanson shares some thoughts on the importance of preserving our cinematic heritage.Former SVP of Development for David E. Kelley and adjunct professor at the USC School... more
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A car collectors who also restores decided to make a BSG Viper Starfighter from the series. He succeeded in the look but has also made the car street legal.
"From what I remember, the front end is off of an old postal Jeep, it has chevy small block engine (cause Dean is a GM guy and he has lots of small blocks lying around the shop). It seats one person and has a cassette deck. No A/C."-JalopnikA car collectors who also restores decided to make a BSG Viper Starfighter from the... more
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Land makes up a quarter of Earth’s surface, and its soil and plants hold three times as much carbon as the atmosphere. More than 30 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions arise from the land use sector. Thus, no strategy for mitigating global climate change can be complete or successful without reducing emissions from agriculture, forestry, and other land uses. Moreover, only land-based or “terrestrial” carbon sequestration offers the possibility today of large-scale removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, through plant photosynthesis.
Five major strategies for reducing and sequestering terrestrial greenhouse gas emissions are:
• Enriching soil carbon. Soil is the third largest carbon pool on Earth’s surface. Agricultural soils can be managed to reduce emissions by minimizing tillage, reducing use of nitrogen fertilizers, and preventing erosion. Soils can store the carbon captured by plants from the atmosphere by building up soil organic matter, which also has benefits for crop production. Adding biochar (biomass burned in a low-oxygen environment) can further enhance carbon storage in soil.
• Farming with perennials. Perennial crops, grasses, palms, and trees constantly maintain and develop their root and woody biomass and associated carbon, while providing vegetative cover for soils. There is large potential to substitute annual tilled crops with perennials, particularly for animal feed and vegetable oils, as well as to incorporate woody perennials into annual cropping systems in agroforestry systems.
• Climate-friendly livestock production. Rapid growth in demand for livestock products has triggered a huge rise in the number of animals, the concentration of wastes in feedlots and dairies, and the clearing of natural grasslands and forests for grazing. Livestock- related emissions of carbon and methane now account for 14.5 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions—more than the transport sector. A reduction in livestock numbers may be needed but production innovations can help, including rotational grazing systems,manure management, methane capture for biogas production, and improved feeds and feed additives.
• Protecting natural habitat. The planet’s 4 billion hectares of forests and 5 billion hectares of natural grasslands are a massive reservoir of carbon—both in vegetation above ground and in root systems below ground. As forests and grasslands grow, they remove carbon from the atmosphere. Deforestation, land clearing, and forest and grassland fires are major sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Incentives are needed to encourage farmers and land users to maintain natural vegetation through product certification, payments for climate services, securing tenure rights, and community fire control. The conservation of natural habitat will benefit biodiversity in the face of climate change.
• Restoring degraded watersheds and rangelands. Extensive areas of the world have been denuded of vegetation through land clearing for crops or grazing and from overuse and poor management. Degradation has not only generated a huge amount of greenhouse gas emissions, but local people have lost a valuable livelihood asset as well as essential watershed functions. Restoring vegetative cover on degraded lands can be a win-win-win strategy for addressing climate change, rural poverty, and water scarcity.
Agricultural communities can play a central role in fighting climate change. Even at a relatively low price for mitigating carbon emissions, improved land management could offset a quarter of global emissions from fossil fuel use in a year. In contrast, solutions for reducing emissions by carbon capture in the energy sector are unlikely to be widely utilized for decades and do not remove the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere. To tackle the climate challenge, we need to pursue land use solutions in addition to efforts to improve energy efficiency and speed the transition to renewable energy.
Yet so far, the international science and policy communities have been slow to embrace terrestrial climate action. Some fear that investments in land use will not produce “real” climate benefits, or that land use action would distract attention from investment in energy alternatives. There is also a concern that land management changes cannot be implemented quickly enough and at a scale that would make a difference to the climate.Land makes up a quarter of Earth’s surface, and its soil and plants hold three... more
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While representatives from every major nation are converging on Copenhagen to discuss "cap and trade" ,"carbon tax" ,"carbon credits" and other equally abstract methods for securing a "prosperous energy future" in the scheme of 21st century global economics, the citizens of the world want a new bottom line.
Join this group and be one of many voices in a solidarity of sentiment for the immediate halt to environmentally damaging industrial practices, worldwide - the only real solution.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=195317300834While representatives from every major nation are converging on Copenhagen to discuss... more
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Open the door to Mr Biggles workshop and youll be amazed, here lies an Aladdins cave full of bicycle treasures! From rare frames from the 70s, to steel frame racers, they are treasures lying dormant.
Mr Biggles collects and accepts donations of used bicycles and bicycle parts to then create customized orders of all bicycle shapes, proportions, and colours.
With an imagination that sees the beauty and potential in these used bicycles, he is able to turn the un-loved old into a new romance.
So many benefits come from this work, such as promote recycling, keeping products affordable, and a willingness to exchange of knowledge and skills with his customers.
Mr Biggles
bigglesrecycles@yahoo.co.uk
This short film is part of "The Journey" an unique documentary project that delves into environmental, socio-culture and economic issues, with a questioning mind.
The focus of the project is to find and film inspiring ideas and projects over a wide spectrum of individuals and cultures, whilst examining our ability to reform our ideals, and our lifestyle in order to make positive changes for our planet and the human race.
The Journeymen (a person whom travels in order to gain experience, skills and knowledge) go in search of these stories - equipped only with minimal filming gear and personal possessions, they document their experience as they travel to global communities to observe, question and learn.
It is an organic process that grows, evolves and takes its own direction. With no planned route nor destination, the journeymen believe they will connect with the right people and places at the right time to film, aid and guide them on.
The project is currently filming and traveling through the UK. As the project travels short films are uploaded that can be viewed on this website. It is the long-term goal that this project will travel internationally to create a feature length film that will be released, to be viewed for free.
The projects aims to benefit individuals, projects and communities by sharing knowledge, offering solutions and connecting people through film.
It is the hope this project will touch and inspire people, by conveying the beauty within human nature and our world and resonating what is actually possible, when it comes it comes to our ability to change the world for the better.
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www.the-journey.tvOpen the door to Mr Biggles workshop and youll be amazed, here lies an Aladdins cave... more
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British cinema was born in a hall on Regent Street in central London in 1896 - when the Lumiere brothers put on the first public show of moving pictures in the UK.
The space - now part of the University of Westminster - could be about to be restored to its original glory, thanks to a million pound donation from a Saudi billionaire.
Makes a change from them knocking down our oldest houses to make way for cardboard boxes.British cinema was born in a hall on Regent Street in central London in 1896 - when... more
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We talk about global warming, the rise of sea levels, air pollution, drought, floods, deforestation and more. Yes, it is true that the climate has changed in the past few decades. The climate is changing now, and may still continue to change in the future. However, there are things we can do to adapt, to slow down, to stop, or to even reverse any negative impacts. more…
http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/one-man-inspiring-hope/We talk about global warming, the rise of sea levels, air pollution, drought, floods,... more
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"In the storerooms of the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John, the silk flags once carried by the 104th Regiment of Foot – as the New Brunswickers marched all the way to Upper Canada to fight the War of 1812 – are quietly disintegrating. In British Columbia, staff at the Canadian Museum of Rail Travel in Cranbrook dream of the day they raise the money for a building to shelter four unique luxury trains that currently sit outdoors, where temperature fluctuations are taking their toll on walnut-panelled interiors, stained-glass windows and wool carpeting.
Canada's heritage is slowly rotting away as museums merely pretty up objects that are going on display, say museum administrators and conservators. As they mark International Museum Day this weekend, they cheerfully welcome visitors into new, gizmo-packed galleries and restored historic sites. Behind the scenes, however, in the storage areas and warehouses where the bulk of any museum collection is located, they wonder how much longer they can hold time at bay.
“As we fiddle, Rome is burning,” says Calgary conservator David Daley, a representative of the Canadian Association for Conservation of Cultural Property. “… Cultural heritage is similar to an endangered species; once lost, it is gone forever.”
Daley and other museum professionals say the recession is making a bad situation worse. “Care of collections has always been difficult to finance. There are not a lot of grants or programs for it,” says Nancy Noble, CEO of the Museum of Vancouver. “It will be worse now because foundations that have supported it in the past wouldn't have as much money.”
Her own institution can't find the funds to repair a large tear in a portrait of former B.C. lieutenant-governor Eric Hamber that occurred some time after the painting was acquired in 1989. The museum's conservator, Carol Brynjolfson, recalls she was asked during her job interview in 1992 if she could patch it, but that she explained a patch would tug at the rest of the canvas. Each individual thread needs to be glued back together, a job she estimates would take weeks of work and specialized skills outside her area. In 2006, the museum got an $8,000 federal grant to hire a conservation intern to work on its painting collection, but could not find a corporate donor or foundation to match the money; so it never made the hire. Twenty years after the museum bought the 1938 painting, it sits in storage – with a hole in the lieutenant-governor's chest.
If it seems a sad waste when such small projects get shelved for decades, larger and more urgent ones look like tragedies in the making. In Cranbrook, the Museum of Rail Travel has brought together the four early-20th-century Canadian-made sets of railway cars from the golden age of rail. Entire hotels on wheels, complete with observation, dining and sleeping cars, they would require at least 80,000 square feet of building to house. Although the cars were built to withstand the Canadian climate, they were not built for eternity, and outdoor changes in temperature and humidity are damaging their decorative interiors.
“The cars will return to the earth, like anything else,” says executive director Garry Anderson, who estimates that in 25 years time they will have reached a point where restoration becomes impossibly expensive, adding that his museum has received a $110,000 federal grant to cover a feasibility study for a building. “Our railway heritage is far too important to place on the back burner,” he says.
But all kinds of heritage is getting placed on the back burner, in part, museum staff suggest, because conservation is largely invisible to the public.""In the storerooms of the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John, the silk flags once... more
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"NASA was so preoccupied with getting an astronaut to the moon ahead of the Soviets that little attention was paid to the mountains of scientific data that flowed back to Earth from its early space missions. The data, stored on miles of fragile tapes, grew into mountains that were packed up and sent to a government warehouse with crates of other stuff.
And so they eventually came to the attention of Nancy Evans, a no-nonsense woman with flaming red hair that fit her sometimes-impatient nature. She had been trained as a biologist, but within the sprawling space agency she had found her niche as an archivist.
Evans was at her desk in the 1970s when a clerk walked into her office, asking what he should do with a truck-sized heap of data tapes that had been released from storage.
"What do you usually do with things like that?" she asked.
"We usually destroy them," he replied.
"Do not destroy those tapes," Evans commanded.
She talked her bosses at JPL into storing them in a lab warehouse. "I could not morally get rid of this stuff,"
Evans applied regularly to NASA for funding to repair the drives. She was turned down every time. One NASA center estimated it would cost $6 million to restore the drives and digitize the tapes.
Finally, in 2005, retired and increasingly doubtful that the historic images would ever see the light of day, Evans gave up on NASA and went public.
She submitted a paper to a lunar conference stating her plight. Her plea ended up on a blog frequented by space buffs, where it caught the attention of Dennis Wingo, a kind of space junkie extraordinaire.
The project has so far cost $250,000, far less than the $6-million estimate by NASA.
Having succeeded once, the team released its second image this weekend -- the Copernicus crater. The team eventually hopes to retrieve all 2,000 images from the five missions.
The images will be of more than historical interest. In April, NASA is scheduled to launch the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to again map the moon. This time it will be looking for a site to erect a permanent human base.""NASA was so preoccupied with getting an astronaut to the moon ahead of the... more
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Enough Bullshit, The time has come to Get ER DONE.... I have to finish it,,, AS ALWAYS!!! Jeff Your Walking On Thin ICE!!!!Enough Bullshit, The time has come to Get ER DONE.... I have to finish it,,, AS... more
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A thousand allotments are being made available by The National Trust to encourage a "grow-your-own" philosophy.
Land at some of Britain's most historic properties will be divided into patches where locals can grow their own fruit and veg.
The Trust will also use this opportunity to restore some of the original walled kitchen gardens at a number of their properties across the country.
Surely this is good news for anyone who lacks, but wants, some outside space of their own?
Although I bet the waiting list for the more picturesque patches will be pretty size-able already.A thousand allotments are being made available by The National Trust to encourage a... more
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One of the areas hit by the recession in the U.K is the Heritage Sector. 6 Years in the making, the Heritage Protection Bill which would have given more power to Local Government to help preserve and restore heritage sites was about to be passed. But at the last minute, it was dropped from the Queens Speech as the government shifted priorites in order to tackle the credit crunch.One of the areas hit by the recession in the U.K is the Heritage Sector. 6 Years in... more
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